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We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
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Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.
Bill Willingham
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What's our plan? Well, reviewing our assets, we don't have artillery, nor enough grenades. And since we also lack a wheelbarrow and Holocaust cloak... Very funny, Pete.
Bill Willingham -
Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.
Bill Willingham -
Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.
Bill Willingham -
Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
Bill Willingham -
Because you and you alone I can't block out, no matter how hard I try - and believe me, I've tried. I know where you are every second of every day. I know if you're having good or bad dreams while you sleep.
Bill Willingham -
Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.
Bill Willingham
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Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore.
Bill Willingham -
Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
Bill Willingham -
Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
Bill Willingham -
I thought you'd have learned by now. I'm going to stay by you until the sun and the moon and the stars spin down into darkness and dust.
Bill Willingham -
Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
Bill Willingham -
If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.
Bill Willingham
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Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.
Bill Willingham -
The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom.
Bill Willingham -
No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago.
Bill Willingham -
But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.
Bill Willingham -
What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.
Bill Willingham -
An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.
Bill Willingham
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
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Hope has power only when married to personal action.
Bill Willingham -
... it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.
Bill Willingham -
Remember what dad said. You're still alive-- you still fight.
Bill Willingham